Background
Sharlet, Robert was born on August 11, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Irving Arnold and Evelyn Lillian Sharlet.
(Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitutio...)
Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitution of 1977 through its subsequent implementation under Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko to the radical legal "restructuring" of the Gorbachev years, Robert Sharlet traces the gradual evolution of a nascent constitutionalism in the erstwhile USSR. Sharlet, a noted authority on Soviet law and constitutional development, demonstrates the gradual transformation of law from an instrument of Communist Party rule into the new "rules of the game" for nonauthoritarian political development. In effect, he argues, one of Gorbachev's most durable achievements may be his redefinition of Soviet politics into a legal idiom along with his relocation of policymaking from behind the closed doors of Party conclaves into the more open, emergent arena of constitutional government. In analyzing the politics of law from the Brezhnev era to the rise of Yeltsin, the author takes account of the "war of laws", the symbolic uses of the Soviet constitution, and even the fact that the leaders of the failed coup attempted to justify their seizure of power on constitutional grounds. Constitutionalism has sufficiently suffused Soviet public life, the book concludes, that most of the sovereign republics as successors to the former USSR, have begun designing their futures - to varying degrees - in constitutional forms.
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Political science educator researcher
Sharlet, Robert was born on August 11, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Irving Arnold and Evelyn Lillian Sharlet.
Bachelor in American Civilization, Brandeis University, 1960. Certified in Russian and East European studies, Indiana University, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy in Political science, Indiana University, 1968.
Certified in foreign and comparative law, Columbia University, 1975.
Research associate United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Washington, 1965—1967. Professor of political science Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1967—1996. Senior coordinator Rule of Law Consortium, Washington, 1994—1996.
Chauncey Winters research professor of political science Union College, New York, since 1996. Professional advisory board Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York City, since 1996. Board of advisors Journal of East European Law, Columbia University Law School, New York City, since 1994.
Editorial board Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, Washington, since 1997. Visiting professor political science Columbia University, New York City, 1980—1981. Visiting lecturer political science Yale University, New Haven, 1976—1977.
Visiting assistant professor law University Wisconsin Law School, Madison. With United States Army Security Agency, 1956-1958.
(Moving from the adoption of the "post-Stalin" Constitutio...)
Consultant Central and East European Legal Inititiative, American Bar Association, Washington, 1992—1998. East European coordinator Amnesty International United States of America, New York City, 1977—1984. Member of American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies.
Children: Jocelyn Cordelia, Jeffrey Charles.